Improved water- wheel



ateut ORRIN L. HART, OF MILLVILLE, WISCONSIN. Lette/rs Patent No. 88,`292,(1ated Ma/rch 30, 1869.

IMPRovEn WATER-WHEEL.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe lsame ,mai-

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ORRIN L. HART, of Millville, in the county of Grant, and State of Wisconsin, have in` vented certain new and useful Improvements in Tater- Wheels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this speciiication,. and to the letters of reference marked thereon, like letters indicating like parts wherever they occur.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

My' invention relates to water-wheels, and consists in the novel construction and arrangement of a wheel with iioat-boards and spirally-shaped buckets, so that it may be operated by the water impinging directly against' the Heat-boards in enteringrthe wheel, and in reacting against the sprally-shaped buckets in being discharged from it.

In the drawings- Figure l is a perspective view;

Figure 2 is a View, partly in section, and with a p0r- Vtion of the side of the wheel broken away to show its interior structure; and

Figure 3 is a view of a horizontal section, on the line :zz-x of fig. 2. 1

I construct my wheel A by attaching to a central shaft, B, a series of float-boards, C, radially and in the saine planewith it, as shown in figs. l, 2, and 3.

Directly above and below the ioateboards C, I place a series of spirally-shaped buckets, l), connecting their inner ends to the shaft B, and their outer ends to a surrounding case, E, as shown in fig. l. The portion of the shaft B to which the iioat-boards C and the spirally-shaped buckets are connected, I make larger than the ends of the shaft B, as shown clearly in figs.

1 and 3. If desired, the central part of the Wheel A, to which the float-boards and buckets arerattached, may he so constructed as to permita shaft to be passed through it, and then be keyed fast.

The wheelA, thus constructed, I mount in bearings F of the curb G, as shown in iig. 2, so as to rotate horizontally.

The lioat-boards C of the Vwheel A, I make so as to extend a considerable distance beyond the casings E 'of the buckets D, and' the delivery-end of the spout,

or channel H, of the requisite width to allow the ends of the loat-boards to enteryabout half its width as the wheel rotates.`

In operating my wheel, I let on the water through the spout, or channel H. It impinges against the floatboards O, as shown in fig. 3, giving the wheel its initial rotating motion, and then discharges through the spirally-shaped buckets D, and by its reacting force increases this rotation.

In this Way I construct a water-Wheel, so as to be operated at the same time by the direct action of the i 

